Last Sat­urday marked two months since 276 girls were ab­duc­ted from their beds at gun­point, loaded onto a truck, and taken in­to the woods by ter­ror­ists for dar­ing to go to school. Since then, the ter­ror­ist group, Boko Haram, has con­tin­ued to wreak hav­oc across north­east­ern Ni­ger­ia, prac­tic­ally un­checked. The girls are still gone.

But you wouldn’t know that from the lull of “hasht­ag act­iv­ism” since the story be­came in­ter­na­tion­al news in late April. Scroll through the Twit­ter men­tions of #Bring­Back­Our­Girls today, and you won’t see Michelle Obama or Hil­lary Clin­ton send­ing sup­port­ive mes­sages. Gone are the vir­al pho­tos of celebrit­ies like Brad­ley Cooper, Anne Hath­away, Justin Tim­ber­lake, Sean Penn, and the cast of The Ex­pend­ables 3 hold­ing up #Bring­Back­Our­Girls signs on the red car­pet. (Shar­on Os­bourne, however, has not for­got­ten about them).

Ni­geri­an Pres­id­ent Good­luck Jonath­an’s gov­ern­ment has been cri­ti­cized for not hav­ing re­covered the girls yet. “Pray for Oby Ezek­we­sili. You have no idea what the Jonath­an gov­ern­ment is mak­ing her go through at the mo­ment. #Bring­Back­Our­Girls,” Japh­eth J. Omo­juwa, a prom­in­ent Ni­geri­an blog­ger, tweeted about one of the kid­napped girls on Fri­day. But even Ni­geri­an act­iv­ists are grow­ing fa­tigued from the bar­rage of bad news. Ten minutes later, Omo­juwa tweeted, “I am tired of everything here. I will now fo­cus very much on the World Cup.”

Ni­geri­an mil­it­ary lead­ers have said they know where Boko Haram is hold­ing the girls cap­tive, but will not at­tempt a res­cue for fear that a use of force would be too risky. “Just leave us alone,” Alex Badeh, chief of Ni­ger­ia’s de­fense staff, told re­port­ers on May 29. “We are work­ing. We will get the girls back.” That was al­most four weeks ago.

The Ni­geri­an mil­it­ary has de­ployed ground troops and sur­veil­lance planes. The U.S., China, France, and Eng­land have all pledged to help Ni­ger­ia loc­ate the girls and bring them back. Mean­while, mem­bers of Boko Haram have killed nearly 500 people — shot, blown up, and hacked to death — since the girls were ab­duc­ted. Pres­id­ent Jonath­an has prom­ised to wage a “total war” against Boko Haram, but the ter­ror­ist group has got­ten more than a head start.

Aside from Boko Haram, world gov­ern­ments seem to be play­ing a game of ter­ror­ist Whac-A-Mole. The Is­lam­ic State in Ir­aq and Syr­ia, or IS­IS, is try­ing to take over Bagh­dad in a bloody at­tack. And the Obama ad­min­is­tra­tion just sent five Taliban mem­bers to Qatar in ex­change for the last Amer­ic­an POW in Afgh­anistan.

The mes­sage that gov­ern­ment lead­ers in Ir­aq and Ni­ger­ia are send­ing is that they don’t know how to deal with these ter­ror­ist groups, and are afraid to try. And it may take more than a few tweets from Amer­ic­an celebrit­ies to shame them in­to ac­tion.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are threatening to block the spending bill—and prevent the Senate from leaving town—"because it would not extend benefits for retired coal miners for a year or pay for their pension plans. The current version of the bill would extend health benefits for four months. ... Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday afternoon moved to end debate on the continuing resolution to fund the government through April 28. But unless Senate Democrats relent, that vote cannot be held until Saturday at 1 a.m. at the earliest, one hour after the current funding measure expires."

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PARLIAMENT VOTED 234-56

South Korean President Impeached

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The South Korean parliament voted on Friday morning to impeach President Park Geun-hye over charges of corruption, claiming she allowed undue influence to a close confidante of hers. Ms. Park is now suspended as president for 180 days. South Korea's Constitutional Court will hear the case and decide whether to uphold or overturn the impeachment.

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CLOSED FOR INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES

NPS: Women’s March Can’t Use Lincoln Memorial

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Participants in the women's march on Washington the day after inauguration won't have access to the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service has "filed documents securing large swaths of the national mall and Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial for the inauguration festivities. None of these spots will be open for protesters."

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2.1 PERCENT IN 2017

President Obama Boosts Civilian Federal Pay

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President Obama on Thursday announced a pay raise for civilian federal employees of 2.1 percent come January 2017. He had said multiple times this year that salaries would go up 1.6 percent, so the Thursday announcement came as a surprise. The change was likely made to match the 2.1 percent increase in salary that members of the military will receive.

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SHUTDOWN LOOMING

House Approves Spending Bill

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The House has completed it's business for 2016 by passing a spending bill which will keep the government funded through April 28. The final vote tally was 326-96. The bill's standing in the Senate is a bit tenuous at the moment, as a trio of Democratic Senators have pledged to block the bill unless coal miners get a permanent extension on retirement and health benefits. The government runs out of money on Friday night.